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A Beijing blogger captured video images of the Chinese capital's insane traffic quagmire, one that had cars stretching past the horizon visible from atop a tall building.

The commentary recorded by this person of the Peoples' Republic is priceless:

This is my every nightmare about the city, frightening precisely because I - and any Beijinger, really - could easily find myself stuck in that paralyzing morass of postmodernity, equipped with no salve for a spiking blood pressure except heinous imaginings of unspeakable acts to perform on sentient, suffering beings. The abyss gazes back indeed.